Critical capacity and community engagement. The Janus face of Renewable Energy Communities

The key aim of this paper is to assess the role played by the critical capacity to shape a new paradigm of common resource management within the energy sector. To this end, we endeavor to discern empirically the interplay between the energy community as an expressive device that feed the social fabric of the local community and the organizational dimension of the Renewable Energy Communities as an effectively operating transformative force. In other words, we do not take for granted the «alternativeness» of them to assess it empirically and with the aim of sound research design.